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evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …
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penalty of similar magnitude to the return on each year of schooling attained. Interestingly, when we split the sample by age …
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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. -- Employment … ; Production tasks ; Immigrants ; Offshoring …
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The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...
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-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour …
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Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate … lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour. The main difficulties in this field are the scarcity of data and … systematic review of the empirical literature for the US and Europe on the impact of legal status on different immigrants …
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In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
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